To thrive in real estate investing, you must maintain a firm grip on your finances.

The setback requirements to build in my county require 80' minimum wide street frontage per this neighborhood zoning.

I have even run my numbers using anywhere from 65%-80%, depending on the scope of work, timeline, neighborhood, and ARV. 

Low income neighborhood, yes, huge returns, not really, but it was all cash; net for me was $10k.

We weren't sophisticated enough to call it that, but we were both on board because I liked the potential upside and my wife loved the neighborhood (that we could not have afforded to get into unless we bought a dump of a house).

As the title says, curious how long others are seeing in their area to stabilize a SFR in a C neighborhood.

Ask them how well they know the neighborhoods in your target market.It all boils down to their experience working with out of state investors.

On the flip side, if you've got a bunch of Section 8 tenants living in a building that's in a neighborhood where a lot of the tenant base has good jobs, high credit scores, and are generally reliable people, you've got the most risky tenants in that tenant base and that ain't what ya want.

If you end up in Ohio and you end up in Cleveland you'll want to read The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods.

Interesting, I am an active investor, we also have a team and ask OOS clients almost the opposite: we require them to come to Milwaukee and check out some neighborhoods and houses together in order to make sure we are on the same page.